LV12612B - METHOD AND SYSTEM OF COLLECTING AND HANDLING MEDICAL-BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION - Google Patents

Abstract

An invention is related to the field of biomedical engineering and can be used for registration of the patient state by multiple biomedical parameters at the medical office or at home and also for transmitting the information to the remote information processing center. The proposed method of collecting and processing of biomedical information by a computer system, comprising of computer and controlled over Internet hardware unit consisting of multiple biomedical sensors, multi-channel A/D converter and data exchange interface, comprises the steps of: Web-browser sending a request over Internet for a specialized program in the form of an applet for collecting and processing of biomedical information in response to the user's request; remote Web-server transferring the requested applet to the user's computer over Internet; activation of the received applet by the Web-browser in the local user's computer; activation of the hardware unit and data transmission to the user's computer over standard computer data interface; data analysis, result representation and information storage in the user's computer system. The proposed system for collecting of biomedical information, which includes sensors for receiving information, connected to the input of the corresponding A/D converter, A/D converters which output is connected to a standard computer data interface, and software that provides data processing, storage and output, is differed in that that instead of multiple A/D converters a sole A/D converter is used which functions as multi-channel one and which output is connected to one of the standard computer data interfaces; and the control of the hardware unit is performed by an applet, which is not permanently installed in the user's computer, but is received over Internet immediately before beginning of biomedical data collection by a request of a Web-browser installed on the user's computer.

Description

LV 12612

Abbreviation of abbreviations

Hypertext - Text that contains links to other text in such a way that everyone with a mouse click can easily access the linked text HTTP-request - Internet user request to send him a document containing Hypertext HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol - this is Internet information distribution protocol, the advantage of which is that the document it finds contains information about other related documents that the user may refer to in the future USB - serial data bus - it is a serial bus that provides serial data transfer between the computer and Peripherals SCSI - Small Computer System Interface - the standard originally developed by Shugart Associates, describes the connection of a bus with at least eight peripheral devices PCMCIA - International Computer Memory Wide Association - a Person Computer Memory Ca rd International Association has developed several standards for connecting expansion boards to small computers. These standards are simply referred to as PCMCIA standards RS-232 - serial interface introduced in August 1969 by the Electronic Industries Association. The RS-232 interface provides electrical descriptors to connect peripherals to computers by implementing serial data transfer PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnection Bus - This is a standard extension port for the processor designed to connect levade / waveguide devices not directly to the processor bus, but through additional processor for microcontrollers IR - IR port - infrared port - this is a computer port with infrared light encoded stream reception IEEE-1284 - IEEE-1284 standard - parallel port standard for data exchange between peripheral devices and computer

Claims (7)

A method for collecting and processing medical-biological information from a plurality of biomedical sensors by means of a computer system comprising a computer, a data collection and processing program, and a hardware module comprising a plurality of biomedical sensors, a multichannel analog-to-digital converter, and an interface converter, characterized in that, with a view to simplifying the use of software and hardware and reducing costs, the method comprises the following steps: - Web-browser, at the request of the user, calls a specialized program in the form of an applet to collect and process biomedical data via the Internet; - the Web applet remote from the requested applet is transferred to the user's computer via the Internet; - The received applet Web-browser activates on the local user's computer; - activates the hardware module, collects and transmits data to the user's computer via the standard interface; - The resulting data is analyzed, interpreted and stored in the user's computer system. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that calling the specialized program in the form of an applet at the request of a user for collecting and processing biomedical information is carried out by a web-browser installed on the user's computer, which provides the sending of the HTTP request to the remote WEB server for receiving the hardware. Module Control Applet, Required Applet Detection, Interpretation and Launch as Hardware Module Control Program. 3. A method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that sending the Web-browser requested applet to a user computer via the Internet is carried out by a remote Web-server that provides for the receipt of the HTTP request and the transfer of the requested resources to the web-browser. if these resources exist and access is allowed. Method according to claim 1 or 3, characterized in that the activation of the received applet on a local user computer is carried out by a web-browser, which sequentially provides the applet interpretation and its launch in the form of a hardware module control program, provided that the applet does not compromise the system security. 5. A method according to claim 1 or 4, characterized in that the activation of the hardware module, the collection of data and its transmission to the user computer is accomplished by an applet providing initialization of the data interchange standard and analog-to-digital converter, selection of the channel to be surveyed, assigned Reading and completing readings of sensors sampled during quantity analysis when browsing all analogue-to-digital converter channels. 6. A method according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the applet entering the Internet network provides a dialogue with the user, collection of data from sensors, analysis, display and preservation of the acquired work, and transmission of data and analysis results to a remote computer, this is provided for in the user directive. A medical-biological information collection system for implementing a method according to any of the preceding claims, comprising sensors for removing information, each coupled to a corresponding analog-to-digital converter input, and analog-to-digital converter outputs connected to one of the standard interfaces of the personal computer, The personal computer contains software that provides processing, storage and output of the information obtained, characterized in that, in order to ensure maximum ease of use at minimal cost, a single multi-channel analog-to-digital converter with output is used in the hardware module instead of multiple analog-to-digital converters. connected to one of the standard ports of the user's personal computer via the interface converter, but the hardware module control is implemented by an applet that is not permanently stored on the user's computer but arrives via the Internet network just before the measurement on the request of a Web-browser on the user's computer.